Expletives and apologies: Key takeaways from Elon Musk’s latest interview

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Elon Musk is in your news feed again. The richest man in the world on Wednesday told advertisers who were dropping his social media platform X because of antisemitic posts, to go ‘f**k themselves’. In an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin in a New York Times DealBook Summit, Musk candidly addressed the recent controversy.

Let's take a look at the highlights of this viral conversation:

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Musk regrets controversial, ‘foolish’ post

Musk apologised for endorsing a controversial social media post on X, the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter. On November 15, he had labelled as “the actual truth” a post on X that was perceived to be anti-semitic. The post said that Jewish communities advocated a “dialectical hatred against whites”. His comment sparked a backlash online, as it was seen as an endorsement of a longtime conspiracy theory among White supremacists.


“It was foolish of me,” he said, calling the post “literally the worst and dumbest post that I’ve ever done.”

Advertisers, go ‘f**k yourself’

Musk said that advertisers who had left X should not think they could blackmail him and they didn’t have to advertise with X. “If somebody‘s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself,” he said. “Go. F**k. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is. Hey, Bob, if you’re in the audience,” he added, in an apparent reference to Robert Iger, chief executive of Walt Disney, which pulled ads on X. Iger had spoken earlier at the event and said